Hurry-skurry
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Hurry-skurry is a verb meaning A state of confusion and bustle; a frantic hurry; a rushing about.
Meaning
A state of confusion and bustle; a frantic hurry; a rushing about.
More Meanings
- With confusion and bustle.
- (archaic) To hurry; act hurriedly.
Example Sentences
[…] Besides, you are perfectly able to protect Telemachus, and to see him safely home again, while the suitors have to come hurry-skurrying back without having killed him.
An Engliſh family in the country, [...] would receive you with an unquiet hoſpitality, and an anxious politeneſs; and after waiting for a hurry-ſcurry derangement of cloth, table, plates, ſideboard, pot and ſpit, would give you perhaps ſo good a dinner, that none of the family, between anxiety and fatigue, could ſupply one word of converſation, and you would depart under cordial wiſhes that you might never return.—This folly, ſo common in England, is never met with in France: [...]
Word Forms
- hurry-skurries
- hurry-skurrying
- hurry-skurried
- hurry-scurry
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hurry-scurry, hurry, whurry, skurry, curry, whirry.
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